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A violent weekend has left a toddler dead and an 11-month-old in critical condition following separate shootings in Philadelphia less than 24 hours apart.

Gunfire rang out around 3:30 p.m. Sunday inside a home in North Philadelphia.

According to police, the shooter opened fire on a residence from outside, hitting a 2-year-old girl in the back of the head. The child died at the scene.

The 24-year-old mother of the child was shot once in the right side of the head and once in the back. She's listed in stable condition at an area hospital.

Police say a 33-year-old man, who was a contractor inside the home, was also shot in the stomach. He is listed in critical condition at this time.

Coulter says the home was targeted.
 
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I don't care what the reason is, people who shoot babies are the scum of the earth. There is no justification for shooting an innocent baby.
There never is.
The people that do it though think otherwise.
This case the baby was collateral damage for whatever the adults did or were doing.
Other cases it’s because they want the mother to suffer.
They have to justify it to themselves otherwise they wouldn’t be able to live with themselves
 
Philadelphia police have taken a second suspect into custody in connection to the Sunday afternoon shooting death of a 2-year-old girl in Kensington, police say. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the second suspect was the actual shooter.

Police say the second suspect has not been formally charged and his identity has not been released. He was taken into custody on unrelated charges, according to police.

Two-year-old Nikolette Rivera was killed Sunday afternoon when police say a gunman fired an AK-47 assault rifle into her family’s Kensington home

On Tuesday night, Freddie Perez was arrested by Philadelphia police in Chester. He has been charged with murder and nine counts of attempted murder on Wednesday morning.

Nikolette was in her mother’s arms when she was struck in the back of the head and killed.

Police say the suspects intended to kill Nikolette’s father.

“He was clearly targeting the house. The father was not at home at the time but that’s clearly where the beef was,” Acting Philadelphia Police Commissioner Christine Coulter said.

A 33-year-old man doing renovation work inside the home was also shot.

Both are expected to survive.
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A second suspect is in police custody after sources told Action News he confessed to being the alleged gunman in the shooting death of a toddler in Philadelphia over the weekend.

Tayvon Thomas was taken into custody Wednesday on unrelated charges.

Police believe Thomas pulled the trigger in the homicide of 2-year-old Nikolette Rivera.

On Tuesday night, police arrested another man, Freddie Perez of Chester, Delaware County, who is also charged in the fatal shooting.

Police believe Perez and Thomas were involved in a drug dispute with Nikolette's father, and when they saw the man cleaning carpets inside the home, they confused him for her dad. Thomas opened fire, hitting Nikolette, her mother, and the man cleaning the carpet.
 
Tayvon Thomas, 27, was sentenced to 55-110 years in prison for the killing of Nikolette Rivera, as well as another shooting on the same day and a later attack on three prison guards.

Thomas pleaded guilty to third-degree murder earlier this year, admitting he fired bullets from an AK-47 into Rivera’s Kensington row home while he and another man, Freddie Perez, targeted her father in a drug dispute. The shooting also wounded Rivera’s mother, Joan Ortiz, and a carpet cleaner who was inside.


Prosecutors said that Thomas and Perez wanted retribution on the drug group they belonged to, feeling it “didn’t have their back” after they were arrested on drug charges, NBC10 partner KYW Newsradio reported.

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